Possibly naive/metaprogrammer take on style guides: we should share code as ASTs & every user should bring their own pretty printer (style preferences) to how they view it as text.
Yes, even to how names/ids are compounded from word chains.
I had a few minutes so I wrote up a basic outline of this in more detail. I'm certainly not the first person to think of this but it's a shame I've never seen it gain widespread support. http://blog.shivoa.net/2017/11/tabs-vs-spaces-is-wrong-question.html
@shivoa Hmm good thought. Probably the reason is inertia; large parts of programming have not changed for decades in this regard. For example, why I can't put pictures into code comments (diagrams, explanations, etc.)? And so on.
@aras @shivoa Reminds me of related work like http://bytes.schibsted.com/swift-format-part-1/ or http://esprima.org/demo/rewrite.html